The Goldfinch - Libro en Inglés

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

Theo Decker is thirteen years old when he survives an explosion at a New York museum that kills his mother. In the chaos and smoke he takes with him a small, mysterious painting of a goldfinch, a masterpiece of the Dutch Golden Age by Carel Fabritius, and it becomes both his last link to her and a secret that will shape the rest of his life.

Taken in first by the wealthy family of a school friend on Park Avenue, then by his absent father in the empty suburbs of Las Vegas, Theo struggles to find his place in a world that seems to have no room for him. He finds unexpected refuge in a Greenwich Village antiques workshop run by the kindly Hobie, and an enduring friendship with Boris, a reckless and charismatic outsider. As he grows into adulthood, the painting he has hidden pulls him into the underworld of art dealing and crime, from New York to Amsterdam.

The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Donna Tartt’s long-awaited third novel is a sweeping coming-of-age story about loss, obsession, survival and the power of art to console us.

Tartt writes with Dickensian scope and rich detail, filling the novel with memorable characters, from the fragile Pippa, who survived the same explosion, to the elegant Mrs. Barbour.

Suspenseful, deeply moving and impossible to forget, this is a modern classic and a triumph of storytelling for readers who love literary fiction with the pull of a thriller.